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Guy Standeven also appears in AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" as a vicar, but he does get a credit on screen:

Unlike Jim Delaney playing a diner in two scenes at Bishop's Chop House where Poirot and his eager dentist Bonnington (Denys Hawthorne) are served up with cardiac-arresting meals by waitress Molly (Cheryl Hall).

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Dirk Bogarde grows a moustache for the middle part of the film and swaggers about as a speedway star. At a smart Chelsea party hosted by Moira Lister:

Michael Ward is checking for earrings and Joan Ingram is hogging the foreground

Could the girl playing hands, knees and boomps-a-daisy with Bonar Colleano be a 18 year old Naomi Chance?

There's little doubt that it's Hyma Beckley taking his turn for camera hogging in the centre, with Anthony Oliver borrowing Charles Rayford's pipe and Moira looking supercilious in the background

Dirk gets too big for his boots as far as Sidney James is concerned, as Harold Coyne manoeuvres a spare tyre. For once, this film is on Harold's list

Eerily, just as I thought about Ian Selby, at a WAAF do up he pops doing some camera hogging of his own, with Renée and Bonar unaware of his jolly upstaging.

Also playing a "swagman" is an uncredited Sam Kydd. The name of his character is Johnny Briggs and of course many moons later, Sam played the father of Johnny Briggs' Mike Baldwin character in CORONATION STREET.

Dirk's character is called Bill (William) Fox and of course there have been at least two British actors of that name, one re-named as James Fox, as well as a pioneer American film producer.

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So as to let us know we're in rural America, there are a lot of checked shirts on display during Floods of Fear (1958):

Here one is modelled by George Holdcroft at the Flood Zone Headquarters. The shirts are no doubt wardrobe department left overs from the previous year's visit to Campbell's Kingdom. John Crawford meanwhile thinks he's Indiana Jones

At the crisis conference, John Phillips and Eddie Byrne are cool and collected, but banker Peter Madden is thinking about the insurance claims coming up

Convicts (including murderers ) are enlisted to help build up the sand bags; looks like it's Peter Brace and Edwin Fowles who are about to bag it

Once the tap is turned on, it appears to be Bill Cummings doing a Superman leap for a puny sapling.

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Things must be getting serious as John Phillips has put his white coat on, but Sheriff Eddie Byrne is sharing the latest drowning joke with a pal. In the background, it's down to officer Fred Stroud to do show his mates how to create lovely doodles, though in a later sequence, Fred nearly steals the scene by tripping over a table leg

Dishing out the lumpy soap appears to be dumpy Susan Richards

And as Eddie gets on with his football pools, despite being reduced to a dressing gown, flooded and homeless Arnold Schulkes in the background has still managed to keep his quiff in place

On watchman duty - there's a helpful sign saying "DANGER FLOODING" just in case any one hadn't noticed - is Mark Baker.

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When Paddy and Maureen get hitched, Arthur Dibbs is there to knock back the Jamesons

Centre stage is Norman Fisher, with Godfrey Quigley scooping it back on the left and poor put-on Muriel Pavlow having to serve the food from the kitchen

When the notorious grandfather descends from his bedroom in his pyjamas to join the party, the vicious Mrs. O'Flynn (a wonderfully bitchy Maire Kean) has plenty to say about it, forgetting Father Carey (William Sherwood) is beside her and guest Tony Castleton behind her

But then Muriel goes up in the world and taxi-driver Michael Corcoran knows how to get a big tip

However, John Gregson as Rooney has to stick to the bus, where the conductor may be Charles Rayford.